Ok, how am I already going back to Temple Square? (scheduled for Aug. 18)
I LOVE San
Diego and I love the ward we're in and I love my companion and I feel like I'm
finally settling in and I am just going to cry my eyes out next week, I know it.
So, I probably will not be sending any photos of my departure.
I have just
arrived at the conclusion that being a missionary just prepares you for life
because the minute you get comfortable and feel like you semi know what you're
doing, everythinggg changes. Anyways, I am so sorry for starting this email off
on not the most positive foot.
I heard the greatest quote this week from a
sister at the Battalion. She said,
"When I have days that are just bad, it's obviously not my day, and so I need to make it someone else's day!"
I thought
that was the cutest thing in the world! There are lots of days that I would say
"aren't my day" and I think God does that on purpose so that way I
can make it someone else's day and just forget about myself and focus on them.
So my little invitation to everyone is, when it's not your day, make it someone
else's:)
This week has been so great. We put Bella on date for Aug.
29th!! I'm hoping that I'll be able to Skype our 3 investigator's baptisms from
Temple Square.They all just have such a huge piece of my heart.
It's been such
a fast week because we have been at the Battalion so much, we did a full 12
hour shift there on Friday (usually it's just 6) so we haven't had a ton of
time in our area and I used to really struggle trying to figure out why I
needed to be at the Battalion because I just wanted to be in our area so bad.
These past couple weeks, I have just grown to love the Mormon Battalion so much
more. You can just say the script over and over each tour, or you can really
make it apart of you and help the guests feel the power behind the faith of
these men.
I really feel like Heavenly Father has been helping me so much
because people on my tours have been giving me referrals of their friends that
they want to send missionaries to and it's perfect because I'll be able to call
and teach them and send them local missionaries when I get back to Temple
Square!
Also, on Sunday we had one of the biggest answers to prayer
happen. So, our ward council decides the topic for each sacrament meeting like 3
months in advance, and they choose the topic based off Conference talks.
We
have an investigator who has been learning about the church for almost a year
and we just started teaching her again about a month ago. She comes to church
every Sunday and we've talked a lot about baptism and she knows the church is
true but she just feels so worried about being a hypocrite and not being able
to keep certain commandments perfectly for the rest of her life.
The sacrament
meeting was on President Dieter Uchtdorf's talk 'Come, Join with Us' and everyone talked
about how we are all just imperfect, hypocritical people who do our best to
follow our Savior, but need Him to make up the difference.
IT WAS PERFECT!
She
came up to us after the meeting and was like, "Ok, do you two tell the
speakers what to talk on?" We all just laughed so hard and then talked
about how God really does know what she needs and how it's OK to not be
perfect -
we just need to try.
I love being a missionary!
I'm excited to go back to SLC
but San Diego really is the greatest.
Love you all!
Sister Helton
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